Cloud Engineer

Nomios group.; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud services provider is seeking a Cloud Engineer in Basingstoke. The role involves designing and maintaining managed services cloud infrastructure. Candidates should have experience with Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and strong problem-solving skills. This hybrid position offers a dynamic environment with competitive salary and benefits, including free refreshments and lunches at the office. Occasional travel within the UK and some international trips may be required.

Benefits

Free hot & cold drinks

Breakfast items

Snacks and lunches

Regular takeaway Fridays

Dynamic work environment

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing cloud architectures.
• Experience with containerization technologies and cloud security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD implementation and managing infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Optimize cloud services as customer base grows.
• Collaborate on delivering exceptional customer solutions.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Terraform

Linux

Salesforce

Netbox

Zabbix

Grafana

Problem-solving

Job description

Overview

Nomios' mission is to build a ‘secure and connected’ future. Organisations across Europe depend on us to help secure, connect, and automate their digital infrastructures. In support of our continued UK growth, we are currently seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a smart, high-energy individual who is passionate about building, automating, and optimising reliable, scalable cloud infrastructure.

Role and Responsibilities

Your role as a Cloud Engineer

• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable and secure managed services cloud infrastructure to deliver mission-critical services to customers.
• Act as a key member of the operations team responsible for uptime and optimisation of the managed services cloud platform and tooling.
• Enhance the platform to scale effectively as the customer base grows and new services are launched.
• Maintain compliance with industry best practices and security baselines; collaborate with internal teams to deliver exceptional customer solutions.
• Contribute to cloud-native services, automation, and resolving complex technical challenges.

Qualifications and Requirements

We hire result-orientated, smart, and high-energy individuals with a can-do attitude and willingness to go the extra mile. While we prioritise attitude and approach over specific vendor or tooling experience, this role requires proven expertise in the following areas:

• Cloud expertise
  • Experience designing and implementing best practice architectures utilising Microsoft Azure
  • Experience building and troubleshooting containerised services with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices
• Automation first approach
  • Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
  • Ability to manage environments using infrastructure configuration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Operations and tooling
  • Experience working with Linux
  • Experience working with tooling such as Salesforce, Netbox, Zabbix and Grafana
  • Experience building, monitoring, and dashboarding across the entire IT stack
  • Previous role at a managed services provider or has experience in a technical support role
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
  • Strong technical documentation skills
• Additional Desirable Skills
  • Knowledge and understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP, IP protocols and OSI model, VPN, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, MPLS, BGP
  • Familiar with a test-driven development approach
  • Experience working in Scrum teams with strong self-motivation to drive strategic thinking and planning to achieve service excellence
  • Strong communication and effective time management
  • Problem-solving mindset to drive innovation and streamline service tooling with automation

Job Specifics

• Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring attendance at our Basingstoke office (free hot & cold drinks, breakfast items, snacks, lunches, and regular takeaway Fridays are provided to all staff in the office!)
• Hours: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:30pm, with occasional evening or weekend work if required
• Travel: The role includes travel within the UK, with some overnight stays, and occasional international trips if required
• Requirement: You will be required to attend customer sites across the UK and must therefore hold a full UK driving licence

Why work with Nomios?

You will get to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where you are free to use your initiative in support of our strategic objectives. You will work alongside high calibre sales, technical, and operational experts as part of a supportive, tight-knit team, within which every individual has an important part to play and makes a real difference. Nomios offers a highly competitive salary and commission scheme along with industry-leading benefits.

Nomios is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating and sustaining an environment in which everyone is provided with an equal opportunity to grow and develop, and no individual will be unjustly discriminated against. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.